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CCSVI: Link to M.S. (Conclusion) Our results so far shows strong link between CCSVI and M.S.CCSVI leads to iron deposition which may trigger the inflammatory reaction leading to M.S. or at least worsen the pathology. CCSVI may not necessary be the cause, however there is clinical relation to M.S.

CCSVI: The treatment 2Venography of neck veins and Azygos in normal breathing and Valsava maneuverAll narrowing where dilated with balloonPatients where covered with 3000 I.U. Heparin during procedure.Discharged next day on Clexaine, Aspirin and Warfarin Close follow up for INR, Clinical symptoms

It a prospective study Try to stop the progression of MS ( it is not a cure)Finally will audit our result with respect to Diagnostic modality Clinical improvementRadiological improvement i.e. MRINeurological correlation

This is really amazing... On the front page of the website, the stats from 1993 to current showing the increase prevalance, really makes a case for an environmental factor... perhaps the environmental factor causes congenital malformed veins ....

Also, so much for the vit. d (or lack thereof) theroy.. it's the desert!!! maybe they just recently started using lots of sunscreen... lol

I'll be following them and lets hope more and more countrys follow too...

This has gone from "Unbelievable to Believable" !!!!
I know not real words but you know what I mean!!!
I believe this WILL explode. I don't know how and I don't know when but it will.
I have the HOPE.
Rose

jr5646 wrote:This is really amazing... On the front page of the website, the stats from 1993 to current showing the increase prevalance, really makes a case for an environmental factor... perhaps the environmental factor causes congenital malformed veins ....

Also, so much for the vit. d (or lack thereof) theroy.. it's the desert!!! maybe they just recently started using lots of sunscreen... lol

I'll be following them and lets hope more and more countrys follow too...

Dr. Zamboni has spoken about how he believes CCSVI is a congenital malformation which can be exacerbated by endothelial disruption.
One of our Facebook posters posited in was the fact that women are more covered in traditional burkas, and do not get enough vitamin D. Maybe it is more of a western diet and saturated fats, maybe the growth in industrialization in Kuwait, maybe toxins in oil refining, or the Gulf War and burning oil wells (many vets came home with MS, too)...all would be considered endothelial disrupters.

believe it or not, vitamin D deficiency is very common even in Australia (including in sunny southern Queensland). Obviously Australians wear western-style clothes, but the "slip, slop, slap" sunscreen message has sunk in. It is modern habit to spend a lot of time indoors avoiding the sun, or when outdoors "slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen and slap on a hat". This well-meaning public health message may have gone too far.

I’m thinking it’s organic in origin. Because MS has been with us for quite a while.

More like a lack of something in parents diet like Vitamin D or because, starting with our parents generation, we don’t cook with bones anymore, so we get much less collagen in our diets.

Or maybe it’s the pesticides used in farming since the 40’s that we’ve all been ingesting like PCB, DDT etc; or the fertilizers, or pollution in general. But wait, MS has been around much longer than these things, so again,

I’m thinking it’s organic in origin. But again, something that’s been present all along, just getting stronger in nature over the last few years.

I think maybe it’s something naturally occurring but in an overgrowth state such as Candida albicans where the mother has this condition and in the womb the fetus then has the same condition and it effects the vascular system during it’s developmental stage.

The truncular venous malformation (VM) represents an embryologically defective vein where developmental arrest has occurred during the vascular trunk formation period in the 'later stage' of the embryonic development.

I can’t find it, but I’m pretty sure Dr. Zamboni eluded to something along these lines in his research. I believe I read it paraphrased on another thread.

Or it could be fungal, even parasitic in nature that follows the same scenario as above. Kind of like what they learned about the origin of ulcers.

But if it is organic in origin, why the increase now? What has changed?

The increasing cases of MS have been steady, but these documented stats regarding this 7 year period, 1993 - 2000, in Kuwait is very powerful.As we get closer to answers, there are so many questions…………I believe it is a puzzle!

After worl war II, the Faroe Island experienced a peak in MS, before then there were no MS on the islands, and after it was a reported many cases. Faroe Islands have not got a big population in the first place, i do not have any numers here, but im sure they could be found if googeled.

Anyway theories have been conserned with the UK troops that was based there during the war. Maybe it is something similar in Kuwait. The when they got large numer of forginers coming in, they develop the same MS rate as the forgin troops.

Maybe it is adapting diet, or maybe it is a germ that is spreading from person to person. It takes me a bit back to the antibiotics and dr Wheldons regime.

Non of these explanations ccsiv or antibiotix exclude vitamin d as a working factor. It must be many reasons why ms develops. We should just be happy that they with ccsiv have found one that can easily be excluded with simple surgical procedure. Something that will buy us more time waiting for further reasearch into different causes.

Thanks to Kuwait for more studies

<div>I have lived with ms for 8 years. The last year has been hell, I've gone from shite to even worse every single month, until my liberation in May. </div>

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